[CentOS] Markdown editor for CentOS 7?

Warren Young
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:44:24 -0000

On Jun 16, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>
wrote:
>
> For the time being, I'm using my good old Vim editor for writing it. I
> turned off syntax highlighting, since this produces random results with
> Markdown.

I write Markdown in Vim on CentOS 7 with the stock Markdown syntax highlighting
rule set regularly, and I have never seen it mark text incorrectly.

What you may be running into here is that there are multiple flavors of
Markdown, and some rendering engines are more forgiving of syntax variances than
others.  The flavor tolerated by the Vim syntax file is fairly strict.  If you
stick to what it considers acceptable, it should render correctly everywhere.

For example, many Markdown engines tolerate this:

* Bullet item 1
* Bullet item 2

But if you actually read the Markdown spec [1], you will find that the Vim
syntax highlighter is right to reject it.  It should be:

*   Bullet item 1
*   Bullet item 2

That is, the text needs to start in the fourth column relative to the bullet.

The Vim Markdown rules also tend not to cope well with nonstandard Markdown
extensions like ASCII art tables.  (Core Markdown only supports HTML
s.)

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

> I wonder if there's a good WYSIWYG
> editor for Markdown, or at least something where I can check locally
> what the page looks like.

I rarely see CentOS?s GUI, much less make enough use of it, but if I had to get
a WYSIWYG Markdown view on CentOS, I?d do the same thing I do on Chrome OS: use